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will be represented at Cincinnati; but mas
much as the old parties are considering the
same matters and others of equal interest,
with greater or less earnestness, it really looks
as though something new and novel would
have to be inserted into the platform in order
to hold the parts together The farmer ele-
ment of the party is too strong to permit of
the adoption Of the George land theory, but
the idea Of securing something Of The govern
ment for nothing is one that obtains largely
among the associations about to unite. and
something might be proposed as substitute
for common ownership in land. How would
it do to demand that the government furnish
the laborer with his tools--this, of course in
Guiding farming machinery to the tiller of the
soil and sewing machines to the coming female
voter9 This suggestion is given for what it is
worth, and it may be found Of some value
before the convention is over The plan
would, at any rate, help to dispose of the
surplus, and that is what Disseminated patriots
now most desire.
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step nearer every time it employs the weapon
of force and terrorism in impotent warfas
against inexorable economic laws-Chica.o
Times.
Mr.. REED is handy man to have In tn
House when it is desirable to make the Demo
cratic majority put itself on record in natura
and ugly shape. National Republican.
THE functions of the Catholic Church tx
America are eventually to be determined not by
Rome but by the Catholics Of America; and
the tendency is to limit its functions to matters
of religious sentiment exclusively. milwaukee
Sentinel
SECRETARY BAYARD would better have left Mr..
Porch alone. The latter still insists that Mr..
Sedgwick got drunk, and worse he is going to
prove it. BY the way what has become of the
extraordinary ENJOYS threats of libel suitsa
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
ALL men are born free and equal All men in
the United States remain SO as long as they live
unless they voluntarily surrender their liberty
and give up their claim to equality by joining
some order which provides masters for them
New York Commercial Advertiser.
THE Pan electric scandal is admitted by hon
est men in both parties to be incomparably the
| worst ever brought TO light in connection with
| any national administration. Will this Demo-
| cratic House allow it's term to expire without
| openly placing itself on record in this matterl
| New York Tribune.
+ THERE may be dishonest men on the lists, but
the mass of soldiers seeking pensions are not dis
| nOH6St IL liz becomes fr0SluenG 0leCLou uy
rebel votes to slur them. He shonld feel the
| delicacy of his position when he rejects claims
which Congress has approved, whether they
| come to him singly or in lump.-New York.
| Tribune.
ALIKE in the case of conspicuous men like
| General Logan and in the case of the obscurest
| Representatives who die while in Office, the
eulogies delivered in Congress are almost with
out exception commonplace uninstructive, per-
functory. For that reason. if for other. it
l Ns.iH ho hiatt ov tn omit al
| adoption OF the formal resolutions of sorrow
| would be quite enough.-New York Sun.
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THE formal transfer Of the State treasury
from Democratic to Republican hands took
place yesterday. Hon. John J. Cooper, the
retiring custodian OF the funds, settled dollar
for dollar and to the entire satisfaction of his
successor, Mr.. Lemcke, who remarked that
all balances had been turned over in cash.
Sentinel Of Friday, 18th.
Ex-State Treasurer Cooper yesterday turned
over IN CASH to his successor the full amount
with which he has been charged on the books
Of the State.-Sentinel of Saturday, 12th.N
Which is true? What day was the money
turned over dollar for dollar9 Which day did
exTreasurer Cooper settle9 Was the money
in the treasury on Thursday, the 10th instant,
when the Office was turned over to Mr.
Lemeke? If So why did Mr.. Cooper have to
turn over $50, ooo additional on Friday.
which he obtained from the banks9 Will the
Sentinel answer these questions before it talks
about Republican liesa
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and requires as good business talent. Post

and requires as good business talent. Post
masters at these Offices are required to give
their personal attention to the duties of the
office, and, as rule, they probably work more
hours day than county officers do. A COM
parison of the salaries given above with the
emoluments of the county officers will show
that the latter receive three or four times as
much. There is no reason why this should
be so. Every Office in Marion county can be
filled with good men at the salary paid the
postmaster. $3, 800; every Office in Wayne
county can be filled at So, 700 a year, the sal
airy paid the postmaster, and SO in every
county A nan could take contract and
give bond to fill every county Office in Indiana
at the salary paid the postmaster in the
county town, turn over to the county sum
equal to the amount thus expended, and have
handsome sum left out of the gross amount
now paid county officers. At least, as it APP
pears to us, the postmasters' salaries furnish
somewhat of a guide to the fixing Of salaries
for county officials.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

WHY 1T RECEIVES DEMOCRATIC ATTENTION..
Richmond Palladium.
At each session of the Legislature the Indisn-~
apolis Journal is favored with set speech from
the Democratic leader Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives Mr.. Jewett discharged this duty for
his party yesterday. 1t was not so Extensively
low as that of Horace Heffren in former Lsg-
isature, but it showed quite as fully how much
the CALLED jade winces under the Journals lash.
There is something in these periodical attacks
OF the Democratic leaders upon the Journal
worthy Of serious consideration. They show the
power of the press IN correcting evil practices,
and the fear all wrong doors have Of its censure
With a evigilant and fearless paper ex.
posing and publishing far and near
their wicked deeds, only the most
reckless OF reputation are willing to engage IN
them. Bad as they have been, the Democratic
of the present Legislature would have been
worse and more lawless had it not been for their
wholesome fear of the Journals exposure. This
restraint is always irritating.to them, and, there
fore, at time during the session, one Of
that paper. The people of the State scarcely ap-
preciate the great service the Journal has done
them by its watchfulness over their interests,
and in holding Democratic legislators In check
when fully bent on a rule-or-ruin policy. Some
thing of this, however, may be gathered from
such speeches as that made yesterday by Mr..
Jewett, the Democratic leader Of tie House.
GOOD THING FOR YOUNG REPUBLICANS.
Greensburg Standard.
In every holly contested campaign the Indi
annapolis journal has shouted, with no uncertain
tone. the party shibboleth, and been outspoken
upon every public measure. AS a newspaper IL
heads the list for this State and has few equals
better thing for young Republicans cannot be
found than years subscription to that paper
With veterans in the party aaks it is a faverite
and cherished friend.
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THE TALLY-SHEET FORGERS.

The Journal charges that Prosecuting At
torney Mitchell has declared that no prosecu-
ton shall be commenced in the Criminal
Court against the alleged ballot-box forgers.
We are fain to believe that this is a mistake.
What is the Criminal Court for If not to try
alleged criminals2 It will not do for any
Observation-Disclosures his name is Mitchell or
Wright-to show favoritism in his Office and
declare who shall or shall not be tried. Ii
the alleged balot-bo forgers are discharged
from Van Buren's court for want of iurisdic
ton alone they should be tried in the Crimi-
nal Court. The Democratic party demands
this if the Republican committee of one hun
dred does not.-Saturday People
We agree with the People. If the alleged
tally -sheet forgers are discharged from the
they should be tried in the Criminal Court.
The Republican Committee of One Hun
dred,' as the People and other Democratic
organs please to call them, demand this;
but if any Democrat other than the People has
demanded it, we have never heard of it, ex-
cept those honorable Democrats who are
members of tho Committee of One Hundred.
Now for a plain fact or two The Commit
tee of One Hundred in order to make assur-
prepare informations against the alleged tally
sheet forgers, to be filed in the Marion county
Criminal Court. He was ready to do so, and
would have done so, but that Prosecuting At
| torney Mitchell peremptorily and absolutely
| declined to allow it to be done, would not
| permit the use of his name in connection
with the proceeding, and effectually blocked
| that effort on the part Of the committee The
! committee will consider what further steps
necessary, whether the prosecutor cannot be
compelled by mandamus to allow theinstitu.
ton of proceedings authorized by the Consti
tuition and tho laws of the State The Jour
nal does not pretend to know the reason fol
Mr.. MitchelPs refusal, but simply states the
| fact It has stated it before, and dared de
NAL. Nobody has ever ventured to dispute it,
and the People need not ''fain to believe the
report ia mistake" It is not a mistake
Neither the People with big P, nor thu
people in their aggregated capacity. neeG
worry about the Committee of One Hundred
That committee, or at least enough of them
are in dead earnest in the work of endeavorine
to discover and punish the Infamous scoun
drels who committed the forgeries upon tn
Marion county tally sheets. They vii
prosecute this inquiry without abatement s
long as it is possible, and until they ar
absolutely thwarted by the adverse action o
those whose duty it is supposed to be t
administer the laws in the interest of publ
justice and for the punishment of publ
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But the ignorance of the Journal, or its
willful Misrepresentation either bad enough
in public journal discussing matters of such
interest to the State, again appears in its
statement that the internal improvement
bonds were paid long before the increase Of
the debt If it will turn to the Auditors re-
porto its own fles-it will find that 1884,
14S was paid on these bonds in 1SS3.-The
Sentinel
And the Journal repeats that these bonds
We're paid long before the increase in the
State debt of which we were speaking. The
increase of 81, 100000 occurred during the
year 1885. The Sentinel should stop its
laundering misstatements.
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

POLITICAL Prohibtionists and liquor dealers
unite in fighting high license. Queer. isn't iu
National Republican.
If we should have war with anybody, this
country would look to the Republican party for
protection, as usual Philadelphia Inquirer:
AND now what have the saloons to say about
strikesl Don't they cut into the liquor business
just too awful for anythingl-Boston Herald.
WHEN Senator Morton died the Republican
party lost much the ablest leader it has had
since the death of Abraham Lincoln. Boston
Herald.
THE inevitable disiptegration Of the powderly
society, which has proved itself foe to society,
aud government. and industry. and progress,
and everything that tends to the preservation
of the bes. interests Of mankind, Is brought one
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-14
THE NEW POLITICAL PARTY.

Rather misty ideas have been entertained
by the general public concerning the char
acter and purpose of the political party to be
organized in Cincinnati during the present
month, but after the very definite state
ments of the leaders of the movement, as
published in Wednesdays Journal, excuse for
such vagueness of information no longer re.
mains. The party is to be composite one,
and made up, as it were, of the fragments
which have disintegrated from the old par
ties BY reason Of the wear and tear of time
and the lack of cohesive power possessed by
the parts which have flown off at various
tangents. To casual and disinterested OBJ
server it might seem that the dozen or more
organizations which are expected to unite
into one harmonious and homogeneous
whole include several diverse and conflict
ing elements, but the calm confidence ex-
pressed by the managers in their ability
to manipulate the affair is somewhat
| reassuring, and tends to produce an
IMPRESSION tuaI tAey MAY De great
statesmen in disguise. They seem
to have, at any rate, a clear and decided
view as to the intentions and object of the
new party. 1t will. according to their an
nounceinent, demand the abolition of national
banks; the election Of Senators direct by the
people, or the adjustment of the United
States Senate; the election Of President and
Vice-president direct by the people, and the
abandonment of the Electoral College; woman
suffrage; a law providing for the deferred
payment of public debts; laws regulating the
| holding of lands and legislation placing rail-
roads and telegraphs under the jurisdiction Of
the government. Only these and nothing
more at the present stage of development. II
is possible that these great issues are of sufi-
cient Importance to arouse the earnest patriot
ism and stir the political energies Of the un.
| told thousands of citizens who, it is claimed,
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SALARIES OF OFFICERS.
'PUT UP OR SHUT UP"

In regard to salaries for county officers
those paid to postmasters furnish somewhat
of criterion. The government has no
trouble in getting postmasters at the salaries
it pays; on the contrary, it is embarrassed by
the number of applicants. How is it as to
salaries? Out of two thousand postofices in
Indiana there are eighty-six presidential Of
fees, that term embracing all Offices with
salary above ST, 600. These are divided into
first, second aud third class Offices; those
over SO, 600 being first class, those over So, 600
and under So, 600 second class, and those
over $1,000 and under So, 900 third class.
All below $1,000 are fourth class. OF the
eighty-six presidential Offices one, Indian
apolis, is first class; sixteen are second class,
and sixty-nine third class That is to say,
only one postmaster in the State receives
over So, GEO a year, sixteen receive over
s.. 600 and less than $4,000, and sixty-nine
receive over $1,000 and less than So, 000
The salaries at some of the principal cities
are as follows: Indianapolis, So, 500; Fort
Wayne and Evansville, 50, 200; Terre
Haute, So. 500; Richmond, 50, 700; Lafay-
cite and South Bend, $4,000 New Al
bany, $500; Peru, $4,000; Munc;e,
81, 900; Shelhyville, $1,000, etc. These are
enough to indicate about how the
salaries run. The Office of postmaster at a
second or third-class office is one of at least
as much labor and responsibility as any Office
in the county where the postofiiceis situated,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-14
A LAND-GRAET STEAL,

A big land grant swindle has just been con-
It is known in lobby circles at Washington as
the Backbone grant" and probably the
history of land grant swindles does not fur
nish worse one. The New Orleans, Vicks-
burg & Baton Rouge railroad was chartered
by the Louisiana Legislature in 1873. The
charter is supposed to have been procured
with money. Owing to the topography Of
the country which the road was to traverse it
was called the Backbone road. The Cheek
road would have been a more appropriate
pame Its projectors, having organized it on
paper, came to Congress for a land grant. The
scheme was engineered through Congress, and
they got grant of 1,4OO, 900 acres OF land on
condition that the road should be built within
five years Not foot of the road was built
within that time, and, of course, the grant
the charter because the company had
done nothing. In 1888, ten years
after the original grant, and five years
after it had lapsed and the Back
bone charter had been repealed, the
company assigned its claim to a sydicate
headed by Jay Gould. He was building a
railroad on the opposite side of the river to
| where the Backbone line had been located,
but it served his purpose to confound the two.
Bonds were issued, and an effort set OH foot
| to have the grant recognized at Washington.
| BY some means favorable opinion was OBJ
tanned from the Attorney general. This was
in 1882. The matter dragged along with
varying fortunes until the beginning of this
administration, when a bill was worked
| through Congress confirming the original
| grant,. made in 1873 Senator Edmunds
| characterized it as ''the most audacious steal
that ever heard of in the United States and
| that is saying a good deal" The bill passed,
and the President has signed it. 1t is said
that since the passage of the bill Jay Gould
| has entered under it 200, 900 acres of the best
pine lands in Louisisna. It would not have
taken any more manual labor to veto this
land grant steal than to write veto message
Of pension bill, but the President signed il
| without word of protest
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Mugwump Advice to the President.

boston Herald.
The President will not offend the patriotic
soldier by vetoeing this bill 1.-THE pension bill
When he comes to consider it as act Of public
policy, it is hard to SEQ how he can hesitate.
There is ample proof that his attention has been
drawn to the abuses of the pension system. The
long line of vetoes from his pen attest this fact
These were abuses in detail. Here is whole
sale admission to the pension list Of thousands
Of names which the same justice and equity that
mpelled him to withhold his assent from
pensioning in individual cases forbiGs that he
shall allow to be placed there. He has furnished
reason after reason in his veto messages in these
isolated cases that applies with irresistible force
to the bill now before him. Mr. Cleveland, we
are convinced is not a man to be scrupulous in
small things while he allows abuses in great
ones to be fastened upon the Nation. His repu,
tation, his consistency, the character that has
given him tho confidence OF the country. all
point to his veto of the pension bill as the logical
outcome in the present emergency.
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THE Seattle ost-Intelligencer comes to
hand with strong article against woman
suffrage in Washington Territory. It has
prevailed in that Territory for three years,
md has been represented as working we'll and
satisfactorily to the people. The Post Intelli-
gencer denies this and says the claim is not
rue. There is, it says, ia great and grow
ing sentiment among the people of Washing
ton Territory against woman suffrage. This
sentiment is almost, if not quite, as powerful
among the women as it is among the men. A
half hours conversation among those who
compose any miscellaneous gathering will
convince the most skeptical of the truth of
his statement Tie paper from which we
have quoted also says that woman suffrage
vas practically forced on the people of the
Territory without being submitted to popu-
ar vote ans expresses the opinion that it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-14

JUDGE TAFT = Cincinnati, formerly United
States minister to Austria, delivered lecture
in Cincinnati. few nights ago, full OF interest
ing anecdotes and "reminiscences of life at
Vienna Among other things, the lecturer de-
scribed the curious ceremony OF the washing Of
the feet of twelve old men and as many women
by the Emperor and Empress. At this annual
ceremony the Empress and Emperor are as
sisted by the Crown Prince and his wife,
Princess Stephanie, and dozen archdukes and
duchesses. At the conclusion OF the ceremony
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the men and women are presented with beer
jug and dIinking-cup by the Emperor. Judge
Taft secured two of these for a valuable consid
GRAFTON. The jug a covered cup in pale
green enamel, which the EARNS of Austria
awfuily arrayed' appear in color, and about the
rim are blazoned all the imperial titles. The
cup is Of German silver, on which are hand
somey engraved the imperial arms. This prac-
tice of feet-washing is known in this country as
ceremony of certain religionists, but its use
by the royal family of Austria is curious
revelation.
The correspondent of an Eastern exchange in
talking about Judge Turpies literary attain
ments relates the following incident:
"In 1884 an article appeared in an indianapolis
daily paper which created marked sensation by
its strength and eloquence of diction. The arti-
Gle being unsigned, discussions at once became
rife as to the authorship. Hon. r. G. Bell. of
Fort Wayne, a prominent lawyer and politician,
who was acquainted with Judge Turpies literary
attachments, promptly made a bet of 800 that
David Turpie was the author of the article, his
argument being that there was not another man
in Indiana capable of the piece of work"
This is ALL and the reader is left in distressing
uncertainty as to whether Mr. Bell lost his $10(
or not. 1t would be interesting to know what
eloquent article is referred to- Some definite
information in regard to the district attorneys
literary attainments would also, by the way, bt
very gratifying to good many indianapolis PEG
pie, who now forced to scratch their heads
| anxiously in the unavaling effort to recall wha
he has done in that field that should entitle hin
| to a literary reputation
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GENERAL GRANT used to say that a men,
Der of Congress, in recommending man for
Office, should hold himself just as responsible
for that recommendation as he would be pecu-
niarily if he had signed his note for money
borrowed If Democratic congressman should
suddenly adopt that principle the weight Of
responsibility for appointments already made
at their demand could hardly fail to bow them
down with VICE.
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Mrs. LILLE DEyEREUX BLAKE made a
speech before committee of the New York
Legislature, the other day, in which she said:
"Give woman the right to vote, and we will
grant you the right to hang US if we murder
people" If she will examine the law she will
find there is no trouble on that score. Women
who commit murder have the right to be
hanged, and men the right to hang them,
now
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MANY men have been ruined by politics,
but it would be difficult to find more
striking case than that of S. S. Hollingsworth,
lefaulting treasurer Of Knox county. Less
than five years ago. when elected treasurer,
he had valuable farm and was reputed
worth $4,000. To-day he is penniless and
under sentence of three years in the peniten-
tiary for embeZzlement